Elegie

Marienbad Elegy

AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

LanguageGerman

Year1827

CountryGermany

GenreEpic / Long-form / Standalone Poem

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The "Marienbad Elegy" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is named after the spa town of Marienbad where Goethe, 72-years-old, spent the summer of 1821. There he fell in love with the 17-year-old Ulrike von Levetzow. Goethe returned to Marienbad in the summer of 1823 to celebrate his birthday. On that occasion, he asked Ulrike, via his friend, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, to marry him. She declined.— Wikipedia